CCAFS / Climate change / Mazingira / SLS

Reliable and affordable methods for measurement of greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture now available

A new book, Methods for Measuring Greenhouse Gas Balances and Evaluating Mitigation Options in Smallholder Agriculture, explains how to design a measurement program; how to quantify stocks, stock changes and fluxes of the major GHG sources and sinks including; and how to use field measurements to estimate mitigation potential at larger scales, and assess trade-offs between climate change and development objectives. Continue reading